Different Events Which are Played at Olympics

The world famous major international games where thousands of Athletes participate every time are called as Olympic Games. Here, a wide variety of competitions will be conducted once for two years. For every two years, either the winter or the summer Olympics will be conducted. The winter Olympics will be conducted once for every four years and same is the case with summer Olympics.

These Olympic games are very prestigious games and the ancient ones which have been originated in Olympia, Greece. But, the committee was formed in 1894 with name International Olympic Committee. Apart from the summer and winter Olympic games, there are even paralympics and Youth Olympic games are also conducted.

Coming to the events of the Olympic games nearly 300 events will be conducted among 30 disciplines and with 26 sports. Initially, the sports are broken into disciplines and among them different events will be conducted. If we categorize the summer Olympics 26 sports are played and if we categorize the winter Olympics 15 sports will be played.

The different sports which are played at Olympics are Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Bowls, Boxing, Canoeing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrianism, Fencing, Gymnastics, Hand Ball, Hockey, Judo, Modern Pentathlon,Netball, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Triathlon, Volley Ball, water Polo, Weight Lifting, Wrestling. All these sports are again categorized into disciplines like suppose wrestling consists of two disciplines Greco-Roman and Freestyle and again these sports are in turn categorized into events for men and women.

Thus, many athletes across the countries will part in this auspicious events, for proving their talent.